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BOOK OF PRAYER 



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PREFACE, 



This little volume is designed to aid, 
first, those superintendents who have not 
yet ventured to lead their Sunday-schools 
in prayer; and, second, those superinten- 
dents who are burdened with a sense of 
the sameness of their prayers, and who 
would value a book of prayer for the 
variety of topics and treatment which it 
might suggest in the preparation of their 
own prayers. It is not a contribution to 
devotional literature. It is not literature : 
to have aimed at literary excellence 
would have defeated its object. It is sim- 
ply an effort to utter, in such language as 
one is apt to use in informal prayer, the 
deeper longings which well up from the 
heart of the average superintendent as he 
stands before his school. 



PRAYERS 

FOR USE IN 

Sunday-Schools 



Page 

For Opening Exercises 5 

Rally Day 58 

Christmas 60 

Decision Day ----- 61 

Easter 62 

Promotion Day 63 



PRAYERS 

FOR 

OPENING EXERCISES 
I. 

GOD be merciful unto us, and bless 
us, and cause his face to shine upon 
us this holy Sabbath day. 

May the moments which we are now 
to spend together be very rich in bless- 
ing to everyone of us. May we find joy 
in doing our part in all the exercises of 
the hour. May we be glad to sing, and 
as glad to study our lesson that we may 
learn what God wants us to be and to do. 
Help us who are teachers to give of the 
best that is in us to our pupils, and help 
us who are pupils to honor our teachers. 
May we love one another, and may we 
love our school, and above all may we 
love thee. And when we go from this 
place may we be glad that we came, glad 
that we learned something of thy will, 
and glad that we may come again and 
learn more of thee and of thy love for us. 

All these things we ask in the name of 
Him who taught us when we pray to 
say — 

Our Father, etc. 



6 QFEISTC^a EXERdSES 

2. 

WE thank thee, our Father, for our 
Sunday-school, and for all the 
opportunities which it brings to us. We 
thank thee for all the good we have 
found here, for all the songs and prayers 
and lessons and kind words that have 
helped us here, for the sweet friendships 
that have been formed here, and for all 
the helpful things that have found their 
way into our lives through the years we 
have spent together here. Help us, our 
Father, to appreciate these blessed privi- 
leges more, and to show our appreciation 
by being more regular and prompt in our 
attendance, by studying our lessons more 
earnestly, by taking a more lively interest 
in our exercises, and by attending more 
faithfully to all the duties that are re- 
quired of us. Bless us this hour in all 
that we may do and in every word that 
we may speak. May our hearts be open 
to all the hallowing influences of this 
place, and may we go to our homes desir- 
ing nothing so much as to be like Jesus 
our Savior, who gave himself for us and 
in whose name we have been taught to 
pray: 

Our Father, etc. 



CVPEISTN^ EXERCISES 7 

3. 

BREATHE upon us, O Holy Spirit, 
that all our thoughts and desires 
may be holy and acceptable to thee. 
May we be altogether prompted by thee 
in everything that we say and do. And 
all through this hour may the peace of 
God which passeth all understanding 
keep our hearts and minds — all of our 
hearts and minds — in the knowledge and 
love of God and of Jesus Christ his Son. 
May that peace come to the youngest as 
well as to the oldest among us. And 
may we all go from this house conscious 
that the Spirit of God is with us, and may 
we be guided by that Spirit through all 
the day and through all the days to come. 
We ask it in Jesus' name. 
Our Father, etc. 



8 CXPEISXTCQ EXERCISES 

4 

OUR FATHER, we have met in the 
name of thy dear Son. We are thy 
children; this day is thy day; this Word 
which we are to study is thy Word. Bless 
thine own this day we pray thee, O Lord. 
May we have grace to behave as thy 
children indeed. May we remember this 
Sabbath day to keep it holy. And may 
we be as deeply interested in the study 
of thy Word as if we could hear thee 
speak to us with thine own voice. And 
may all the hallowing influences of this 
place find their way into our hearts and 
prove a lasting blessing to every one of 
us. Bless our Sunday-school, our offi- 
cers, our teachers, our pupils, and pros- 
per everything we try to do in Jesus' 
name. And, Lord, help us not to attempt 
to do anything in our School which can- 
not be done in Jesus' name. May all 
things be done as in his sight and for his 
glory. We ask these things in his own 
name. 

Our Father, etc. 



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QPE^nsrq exercises 

5. 

UR FATHER, we are glad that we 
can come together here in this 
pleasant place away from the noise of the 
world, and spend a little while thinking 
of thee and of what thou wouldst have us 
do. Empty our minds, we pray thee, of 
the things we have been thinking about 
during the week, and help us to fix our 
thoughts upon thee. Empty our hearts 
of the things that are contrary to thy will, 
and help us to fix our affections upon 
thee. And may there come to us to-day 
a new thought of God — a precious 
thought that will abide in our minds all 
through the week — a thought that will 
make us better — better men and better 
women, better boys and better girls. 
Bless us as we study our lesson together. 
May the hearts of our teachers burn with 
love for our pupils, and may our pupils 
love and honor our teachers, and may we 
teach and may we learn remembering 
that Jesus our Teacher is looking upon 
us with loving interest in all we do in 
his name. 

Our Father, etc. 



lO OPENING EXERCISES 

6. 

OUR FATHER, we thank thee for 
the love that hath kept us through 
the week, and hath brought us safely to- 
gether again. We pray that we may be 
conscious of thy love this hour, and that 
thy love for us may awaken in our hearts 
a deeper love for thee and a deeper love 
for one another. Help us to remember 
that God is love, and that it is the privi- 
lege of his people to love more, and to be 
more lovable and more lovely than other 
people. May it be our daily business and 
our chief joy to love one another and to 
love thee. May we love our Sunday- 
school because it is the school in which 
we are taught to love thee. May we love 
our Bible because it is the book in which 
we are taught to love thee. May we love 
one another because we are children of 
the same Father and therefore owe to one 
another the love of brothers and sisters. 

These things we ask in the name of 
Jesus our Savior. 

Our Father, etc. 



OPE1STNG EXERCISES 11 



WE present ourselves before thee, O 
Lord, craving thy blessing. Here 
are little children who every moment 
need thy tender care. Put thine arm 
around them, we pray thee, and may not 
one of them ever leave thy loving em- 
brace. Here are strong boys and girls 
who are so prone to trust in their own 
strength. Teach them rather to lean 
upon thee, and to use the strength which 
thou hast given them for thy glory. Here 
are young men and women who need 
continually the guidance of thy Holy 
Spirit. Keep their feet, O God, and may 
they never wander from the path of truth 
and right. And here are older men and 
women who are conscious that they need 
everything from thee, and are crying 
unto thee. Lord hear them. Hear all 
our cries, and give to each of us the bless- 
ing that we need this day. And when we 
go from this house grant that we may go 
in thy strength, with hearts filled anew 
with thy love. All we ask in Jesus' name. 
Our Father, etc. 



12 OPENING EXERCISES 

8. 

OLORD, from whom all holy de- 
sires come, awaken in our hearts a 
deeper longing to know thy holy will. 
May it be our chief concern to learn just 
what thou wouldst have us be, in order 
that we may so live as to please thee. 
And may we not forget that it is in thy 
Holy Book— in these lessons which we 
study from Sabbath to Sabbath — that we 
are to find thy will concerning us. If 
thou shouldst come into this place so that 
we could see thee with our eyes, and 
shouldst speak to us with thy voice so 
that we could hear thee with our ears, 
how anxious we would be to catch every 
word that might fall from thy lips ! Help 
us, Lord, to realize that in these lessons 
thou dost really come to us and speak to 
us. And may we study our lessons with 
all the earnestness with which we would 
listen to thy voice. All we ask in Jesus' 
name. 

Our Father, etc. 



OPEflsmsrq exercises 13 

9. 

OUR FATHER, may every moment 
of this glad hour be rich in blessing 
for every one of us. May our minds be 
open to thy Word, may our hearts be 
open to thy Spirit, and may we yield our- 
selves wholly up to thee to be used by 
thee according to thy holy will. Keep 
us this day from all sin. May we not do 
anything which thou wouldst not have 
us do, or speak one word which thou 
wouldst not have us speak, or think one 
thought which thou wouldst not have us 
think. May we be wholly guided by thee 
in all things. Bless us while we sing and 
pray, bless us while we teach and learn; 
and may thy blessing go with us from 
this place, so that when we go to our 
homes we may have strength to put into 
practice the lessons we have learned. 

All this we ask in the name of Him 
who taught us to say, 

Our Father, etc. 



14 CXPE^DSTQ EXERCISES 

10. 

BLESSED SAVIOR, we know that 
thou art interested in us and in our 
School, and we come to thee confident 
that thou wilt hear our prayer. We feel 
the need of greater earnestness in our 
work. Help us who are officers to realize 
the great possibilities of our School, and 
to plan and work and pray for greater 
things. Help us who are teachers to 
realize that there is no work so noble as 
the molding of a young life in the image 
of thy dear Son, and may we give our- 
selves more earnestly to our teaching 
than ever before. Help us who are pupils 
to realize that there is nothing so im- 
portant to us just now as to learn what 
God would have us be and do, and may 
we study our lessons more faithfully than 
ever before. And grant, Lord, that from 
this day we may all — officers, teachers 
and pupils — work together for the up- 
building of our School so that its influ- 
ence may spread until every man and 
woman and boy and girl who ought to 
be here shall come to enjoy its benefits. 
Our Father, etc. 



OFENTyrg exercises 15 

II. 

OUR FATHER, we pray thee to 
make our Sunday-school a school of 
faith — a school in which we shall learn of 
thee so well that we cannot help trusting 
thee. Help us who are teachers to re- 
member that our faith in God is accord- 
ing to our knowledge of God, and help 
us to hasten to fill the minds of our pupils 
with the knowledge of God that they may 
never doubt him. Forbid Lord that any- 
one should go out from this school 
doubting thee, but may our boys and 
girls grow in faith as they grow in years, 
and may they all become shining ex- 
amples of simple trust in the Lord Jesus. 
All we ask in his dear name. 
Our Father, etc. 



16 CXPEINTISre EXERCISES 

12. 

OUR FATHER, we come to thee 
humbly confessing our sins. Dur- 
ing the past week we have wandered 
from thee — many of us — like sheep lost 
upon the mountains. We have followed 
our own desires rather than thy holy will. 
We have thought of what we wanted to 
do, and have seldom stopped to think 
what thou wouldst have us do. We have 
disobeyed thee in many things. We have 
left undone many things which we ought 
to have done, and have done many things 
which we ought not to have done. Have 
mercy upon us, have mercy upon us, O 
merciful God, for the sake of thy dear 
Son, and blot out all our sins. And so 
cleanse our hearts by the inspiration of 
thy Spirit that we may never more 
wander from thee, but may henceforth 
walk according to thy holy Command- 
ments. 

Our Father, etc. 



CXPMNXree EXERCISES 17 

13. 

LORD, we have come together in this 
pleasant place to learn of thee and 
of our duty to thee and to one another. 
We pray that our minds may be wholly 
under thy guidance this hour — that we 
may be kept from all unworthy thoughts, 
and that we may be able to understand 
clearly all that may be taught us or all 
that we may try to teach. May we find 
it a delight to think of God and of all that 
he has done for us, and of all that we 
ought to do for him. Help us to make 
the most of our lesson hour. May we be 
so deeply interested in our work as 
teachers that we will not have a moment 
to spare from the lesson for other things. 
May we be so deeply interested in the 
lesson as pupils that we will not care to 
think of other things. And may the les- 
son yield some precious truth for each 
of us that will find its way into our hearts 
and that will help us to live nearer to 
thee. 

Look upon us in mercy, O Lord, and 
forgive our sins and give us thy Holy 
Spirit, for Jesus' sake. 

Our Father, etc. 



14 

VERY gracious hast thou been to us 
through the past week, O God, and 
this new Sabbath finds us surrounded 
by thy mercies. What would our lives 
be without thy lovingkindness, O God! 
We pray that all through this holy day 
our hearts may be kept very tender with 
the thought of thy goodness to us. May 
we give thanks unto the Lord, because 
he is good and his mercy endureth for- 
ever. May our songs this hour be full of 
gladness because of the gratitude of our 
hearts. 

The Lord bless us and keep us. The 
Lord make his face to shine upon us and 
be gracious unto us. The Lord lift up 
his countenance upon us and give us 
peace. 

Our Father, etc. 



15. 

OUR FATHER, we are not worthy 
to come into thy presence; but we 
know that thou art glad to have us come, 
else thou wouldst not have given thy be- 
loved Son to die for us. There is so 
much, Lord, that we need, and there is 
no one to whom we can go but to thee. 
We want our sins forgiven. We have 
done wrong many times during the past 
week — thou knowest all about it — and 
we are sorry. We want to be cleansed 
and filled with thy Spirit so that we may 
be kept from sin. O, cleanse our hearts 
and take complete possession of us so 
that where there has been hate there may 
be love, where there has been selfishness 
there may be generosity, where there has 
been bitterness there may be kindness. 
And continue, we beseech thee, thy work 
in our hearts until thou hast molded us 
in the image of thy dear Son, our blessed 
example. 

All we ask in his dear name. 

Our Father, etc. 



20 OPMNTisre :exe:rcisj:s 

16. 

WE thank thee, O Lord, for this day 
and this hour. We thank thee for 
life and health, for friends and loved ones, 
for our Church and Sunday-school, and 
above all for our blessed Savior through 
whom all these blessings have come to 
us. Help us, Lord, to show how thank- 
ful we are for our lives by living as thou 
wouldst have us live; for our friends and 
loved ones by treating them as friends and 
loved ones; for this day by remembering 
to keep it holy; for our Church and Sun- 
day-school by entering heartily into all 
the services of thy house. And help us 
to show how thankful we are for our 
blessed Savior by obeying his command- 
ments, by living close to him, by walking 
continually in his footsteps. All these 
things we ask in his dear name. 
Our Father, etc. 



OPENTlSrG EXEROISES 21 

17. 

BE very gracious to us, our Father, 
this hour and bless us in all that we 
do in the name of thy Son. Empty our 
minds of every unholy thought; empty 
our hearts of every unholy desire, and fill 
us with thy Holy Spirit, that all our 
thoughts and desires, our words and 
deeds, may be pleasing to thee. May it 
be our delight to do our duty in all things 
this day. Help us who are pupils to be 
earnest, attentive, orderly, and quick to 
respond to every request. Help us Who 
are teachers to be patient, loving, kind, 
zealous, full of the spirit of Christ, and 
burning with desire to mold our pupils 
in his image. And help us who are 
officers to be diligent and faithful in every 
duty. Bless our School this day we pray 
thee, for Jesus' sake. 
Our Father, etc. 



22 OPEEETTN-g EXERCISES 

18. 

OUR FATHER, who art always 
more ready to give than we are to 
ask, pour upon us this day such a blessing 
that there shall not be room enough to 
receive it. May we have such a revela- 
tion of thy love that our lips shall over- 
flow with praise all the day long. Here 
in our Sunday-school may we serve the 
Lord with gladness and come before his 
presence with singing. May we remem- 
ber that it is our privilege to be happy 
wherever we are; and at all times and in 
all things may we rejoice and give thanks 
unto the Lord. For he is good; for his 
mercy endureth forever. 
Our Father, etc. 



OPElSmSTG EXERCISES 23 

19. 

LORD, we remember that when thy 
people gathered themselves to- 
gether to ask help of thee, and stood 
before the Lord with their little ones, 
their wives and their children, and cried 
unto thee, thou didst hear them and an- 
swer their prayer. Even so, Lord, we 
thy people — men and women, youths and 
maidens and little children — would come 
before thee and lift up our cry unto thee; 
for we know that thou wilt answer us even 
as thou didst answer Judah of old. Hear 
us, Lord, for ourselves and our loved 
ones, and for all for whom we should 
pray. Bless our Sunday-school, that it 
may be a blessing to us. Bless our pas- 
tor, our officers, our teachers, our pupils. 
[Bless the teacher who is kept away to- 
day by sickness.] Remember the pupils 
whose places are vacant to-day. Bless 
those among us who are in trouble of any 
sort. Look with pity upon those pupils 
who do not feel it worth while to study 
their lessons, and help them to realize 
how they are thus turning their backs 
upon their Heavenly Father. Bless us 
all, O Lord, according to our several 
needs, for Jesus' sake. 
Our Father, etc. 



24 CEPMNTJNTG EXERCISES 

20. 

JESUS, thou joy of loving hearts, 
Thou fount of life, thou light of men, 
From the best bliss that earth imparts, 
We turn unfilled to thee again. 

There is no love like thy love; no peace 
like thy peace; no joy like the joy which 
comes from the consciousness that thou 
hast accepted us. Receive us, O Lord, 
forgive our sins, and call us thy own 
again. And may we from this moment 
live as thy own. May we walk in thy 
footsteps. May we be meek and lowly 
and kind and merciful, and patient and 
considerate, and may we always be about 
our Father's business. May we so live 
that all around us will know that we are 
thy friends. 

Our Father, etc. 



ovjsntng exercises 25 

21. 

VERY gracious hast thou been to us 
during the past week, O God, and 
this Sabbath finds us crowned with thy 
lovingkindness. How can we thank thee 
enough for thy mercies ! Help us to re- 
member that if we cannot find words to 
express our gratitude we may yet express 
what we feel in grateful deeds. And all 
through this day may we do the things 
that please thee. Help us to keep thy 
commandments. Help us to be kind to- 
ward one another, tender-hearted, for- 
giving one another even as God, for 
Christ's sake hath forgiven us. Bless all 
the members of our school — those who 
are here and those who are kept away. 
If there are any sick make them well. If 
there are any in sorrow wipe away their 
tears. If there are any burdened take 
the weariness out of their hearts. And 
may everyone of us have a blessing from 
thee this day according to each individual 
need. All we ask in Jesus' name. 
Our Father, etc. 



26 OPEJTCNQ EXERCISES 

22. 

WE thank thee, Our Father, for the 
holy Sabbath day which thou hast 
set in between the busy weeks to turn 
our thoughts from the things of the 
world to the things of God. How soon 
would we forget thee, O Lord, but for 
thy Sabbaths ! We thank thee for every 
Sabbath day that brings to us the 
thought of God. May this holy day be 
the best Sabbath we have ever spent. 
May we delight in studying thy word, in 
attending upon all the services of thy 
church, and in every good word and 
deed. May we find rest this day in doing 
our Father's will. 

Now, Father, fix our thoughts upon 
the lesson we are about to study. May 
we open the Book with an earnest desire 
to find therein some precious truth that 
may be helpful to us in our daily life. 
And may we find that precious truth, for 
Jesus' sake. 

Our Father, etc. 



OPENING EXERCISES 27 

23. 

MERCIFUL FATHER, we give 
thee hearty thanks for all thy good- 
ness and lovingkindness to us. It is to 
thee, O Lord, that we owe all that we 
have. Thou didst give us our lives. 
Thou hast kept our hearts beating, and 
hast given us our food and clothing and 
all that we have needed. Thou didst 
give us thy dear Son to die for us that 
we might live; and thou hast given us our 
Sabbaths, our Bible, our Church and 
Sunday-school that we might have abun- 
dant opportunity to learn how to walk in 
his footsteps. Lord, what shall we ren- 
der unto thee for all thy goodness to us? 
Shall we not give ourselves to thee? 
Master, help us. At this moment we 
would lay ourselves upon thy altar. We 
offer ourselves as our thankoffering, 
Lord; accept us — all that we have and all 
that we are — accept us and use us for 
Jesus' sake. 

Our Father, etc. 



28 OPENTI^Q EXERCISES 

24. 

BE very gracious to us this hour, O 
Lord, and may every moment that 
we shall spend together be precious in 
thy sight. May our songs bring us joy, 
may our lessons bring us light, may our 
talks with one another draw us nearer to- 
gether and nearer to thee, and may all 
that we do be pleasing to thee and help- 
ful to those around us. May we love our 
Sunday-school more and more. May we 
be faithful in our duties as teaohers and 
pupils. May we delight in being regular 
and prompt, and may the interest we take 
in our work be an inspiration to all with- 
in our reach. Help us who are teachers 
to be faithful to our pupils, and help us 
who are pupils to love our teachers, and 
to love the Word which we shall learn 
from their lips. And as we study our 
lessons may we be filled with holy aspira- 
tions. May we long to do better and be 
better, and may we have grace from thee 
to do better and be better, for Jesus' sake. 
Our Father, etc. 



oransTisrQ exercises 29 

25. 

LORD, look very tenderly upon us, 
we pray thee, and blot out all of our 
sins. Cleanse our hearts and make room 
for thy blessed Spirit, that he may take 
possession of us and use us for thy glory. 
Bless us as members of this school. May 
each of us be a blessing to the school and 
may the school be a blessing to each of 
us. Fill our teachers with holy ambition, 
and may they not be satisfied if their 
pupils are not growing up in the image 
of Christ. And create in our pupils an 
intense desire to know the will of God, 
so that they will study their lessons not 
merely that they may recite them, but 
that they may learn what God would 
have them do. Bless all of us who are 
here to-day and graciously remember 
those pupils and teachers who for any 
reason are kept at home. All we ask in 
Jesus' name. 

Our Father, etc. 



SO CEPENTXQ EXERCISES 

26. 

BLESSED LORD, who hast taught 
us that without thy help it is im- 
possible to please thee, guide us by thy 
Holy Spirit that all that we do this hour 
may be acceptable in thy sight. May we 
realize what a terrible thing it is to do 
those things which we know are dis- 
pleasing to thee, and may it be our am- 
bition to win thy approving smile. Help 
us to use our opportunities faithfully. 
May we accept each golden moment as 
a gift from thee to be used for thy glory. 
Here are sixty minutes in which we may 
sing and pray and study the lessons 
which teach us thy holy will. Help us, 
Lord, to make the most of every one of 
them, for Jesus' sake. 
Our Father, etc. 



OPESrETCQ EXERCISES 31 

27. 

OUR FATHER, we thank thee that 
thou hast not left us to grope our 
way through life in the dark alone, but, 
that thou hast given us thy Holy Word 
as a guide-book to point out the way, 
and thy Holy Spirit to help us use this 
guide-book aright. We thank thee for 
our Sunday-school in which we come to- 
gether to study this guide-book so that 
we may learn the way of life. O Father, 
grant that we may love thy Word more 
and more, and may we love our Sunday- 
school for the opportunities which it 
gives us to learn its meaning. And may 
we love those who study this Word with 
us, and especially those who teach it to 
us. Bless us as we open this Book this 
hour. May a great light fall from above 
upon its pages, and may we learn some 
precious truth that will abide in our 
hearts and help us to walk as thou 
wouldst have us walk. Hear us for 
Jesus' sake. 

Our Father, etc. 



32 OPEJSTJSre EXERCISES 

28. 

UNTO THEE, O Lord, do we lift up 
our hearts. Hear us when we cry 
unto thee for in thee do we put our trust. 
Thou art the God of our salvation. Re- 
member not our sins but rather remem- 
ber us according to thy loving kindness 
and thy tender mercies, and blot out our 
sins. Cleanse our hearts and fill us with 
thy Holy Spirit. Teach us thy way and 
make plain our path before thee. And 
may we walk in thy way all the days of 
our lives. Bless us this hour, Lord, and 
may all the words of our mouths and the 
meditations of our hearts be acceptable 
in thy sight, O Lord, our strength and 
our Redeemer. 
Our Father, etc. 



OFENUSTQ EXEROISES 33 

29- 

LORD, we present ourselves before 
thee to offer ourselves for thy ser- 
vice. We are thy children but we want 
to be useful children. O take possession 
of us and use us for thy glory. Take 
our hearts and fill them full of love for 
thee, that we may find ways to serve 
thee. Take from us all unholy desires 
that there may be room in our hearts for 
high and holy aspirations. Take our 
minds and rid them of all unworthy 
thoughts, and whatsoever things are 
honest and just and pure and lovely and 
of good report, help us to think on these 
things. Take our lips and cleanse them 
from all bitterness, all harshness, all un- 
charitableness; and teach them to speak 
words of love, of tenderness, of courtesy, 
of kindness. Take our hands and make 
them strong and tender and warm for the 
work that thou mayst give us to do. 
Take our feet and keep them out of every 
evil path and make them swift to run on 
errands of love for thee. O take us as we 
are, and make us what we ought to be, 
for Jesus' sake. 
Our Father, etc. 



34 QPETSrnSTQ EXERCISES 

30. 

LOOK very tenderly upon us this day, 
O Lord, and make us happy with 
the consciousness of thy love; and may 
our hearts overflow with love for thee 
and for one another. Take all sin out of 
our hearts; take all disturbing thoughts 
out of our minds; and may we enter upon 
the study of our lesson with the single 
desire to learn more about thee and about 
what thou wouldst have us be and do. 
And, Father, grant that we may this day 
learn something that will help us to be 
better than we have ever been before — 
something that will increase our faith, 
something that will cause us to love thee 
more and obey thee more perfectly. 
Bless our school, our officers, our 
teadiers, our pupils, those who* are pres- 
ent and those who are absent, and especi- 
ally those who are kept at home by sick- 
ness or other affliction. All we ask in 
Jesus' name. 

Our Father, etc. 



OJPBISnNrG EXEROISES 35 

31. 

OUR FATHER, we give thee hearty 
thanks for thy loving care over us 
during the past week. Every day and 
every hour thou didst hover over us to 
protect us from danger, and to supply 
our every want. Help us to realize how 
entirely dependent upon thee we are for 
every moment we have, and may we learn 
to look upon the passing moments as so 
many golden gifts from God. Help us 
especially to appreciate the hours we 
spend together here in our Sunday- 
school. May we learn to love our School 
more and more as the gift of thy love, 
and because of the opportunities it gives 
us to learn more of thy love. Bless every 
one connected with our School — our pas- 
tor, our officers, our teachers, our pupils, 
and our mothers and fathers at home who 
are interested in our work. And remem- 
ber, we beseech thee, those of our boys 
and girls who have been kept at home by 
sickness or trouble of any sort. All we 
ask in Jesus' name. 
Our Father, etc. 



3« CXPEISTyQ EXERCISES 

32. 

HOLY SPIRIT, from whom all holy 
thoughts proceed, take possession 
of our minds we pray thee, and teach us 
to turn our thoughts continually toward 
thee. May our first thought when we 
awake in the morning be of God; may 
our last conscious thought at night be of 
God; and all through the day, however 
busy or full of play our minds may be, 
may we often turn to think of thee. For- 
bid that we should allow our minds to be 
so full of other things that we would have 
to confess with shame at the close of the 
day that we had forgotten thee. And, 
Lord, forbid that during this hour which 
we are now to spend together we should 
allow our minds to wander from thee. 
Hear us, for Jesus' sake. 
Our Father, etc. 



OPKNUSTQ EXERCISES 37 

33. 

WE will praise thee, O Lord, with all 
our hearts. We will be glad and 
rejoice in thee. For thou hast crowded 
our lives with blessings and thy mercies 
are more than the hairs of our heads. We 
praise thee for life, for all its oppor- 
tunities, its comforts, its innocent pleas- 
ures, its blessed experiences. We praise 
thee for our Church and Sunday-school, 
for our Bible — for all the opportunities 
which thou hast given us to learn of thee. 
And above all we praise thee for the gift 
of thy dear Son, our Savior and Friend. 
Help us this day, O Lord, to praise thee 
with our lives as well as with our lips. 
May we show our gratitude to thee by 
living as thou wouldst have us live and 
by being faithful to thee in all things. 
All we ask in Jesus' name. 
Our Father, etc. 



38 OPKNnSTQ EXERCISES 

34 

SPIRIT Divine attend our prayer, 
And make our hearts thy home; 
Descend with all thy gracious power, 
Come, Holy Spirit, come. 

O Blessed Master, we open our hearts 
to thy Spirit. We are not worthy that 
thou shouldst dwell in us, but thou hast 
made us for thy dwelling place and thou 
wilt come to us if we will make room for 
thy throne. O, take possession of us and 
cleanse us. Take possession of us and 
use us. And so guide us, Lord, we pray, 
that all our thoughts and words and 
deeds may be acceptable to thee. May 
we all from this moment do all things 
under the impulse of thy blessed Spirit. 
May every thought we think come from 
thee. May every desire of our hearts be 
inspired by thee. May every word that 
falls from our lips be prompted by thee. 
Take us, Lord, as we are and make us 
what we ought to be, and use us as thou 
wilt in all things. All these things we ask 
in the name of thy dear Son. 

Our Father, etc. 



OPEJSXP^Q EXERCISES 39 

35. 

AS little children gather around a 
father's knee, seeking a father's for- 
giveness and a father's blessing, so we 
come to thee, our Father which art in 
heaven. We know that we are not 
worthy to be called thy children, but we 
remember that thou didst so love us as 
to give thy only Son to die for us, and 
we are not afraid to come to thee and call 
thee Father. O Father, put thine arm 
around us and tell us thou hast forgiven 
us, that we may look up into thy face. 
And help us, Lord, from this moment 
never to forget whose children we are 
and whose name we bear, for Jesus' sake. 
Our Father, etc. 



40 OFEiSTyrq exercises 

36. 

OUR FATHER, help us to enter 
upon the exercises of this hour with 
great earnestness, remembering that en- 
thusiasm is essential to everything that 
calls for the best that is within us. And 
help us to feel that our Sunday-school 
does call for the best that is within us., and 
may we do our best every moment of the 
precious time that has been set apart for 
this work. May we realize that when we 
waste one of these golden moments we 
cast away a precious gift of thy love. 
But, Lord, while we would be deeply in 
earnest we would not be impatient. Help 
us to demand great things of ourselves 
and then we shall not easily grow dis- 
couraged at the shortcomings of others. 
Help our teachers to fall deeply in love 
with the truths they are teaching. Help 
them to bind their pupils to their hearts 
that they may bind them to Christ. And 
help our pupils to love their teachers and 
to love the truth that is taught them; 
and may they remember that if they can- 
not all be brilliant pupils they can all 
make their lives fragrant. Help us all, 
O Lord, to follow the ways of peace, and 
to cultivate with diligence the art of be- 



OPEISTiyQ EXERCISES 41 

ing kind. And may everyone of us learn 
to follow in the Masters' footsteps, for 
his own dear sake. 
Our Father, etc. 



42 cxPENryro roxERcrrsES 

37. 

OUR FATHER, we pray thee to put 
into our hearts a great hunger 
for the knowledge of God. Help us to 
realize that if we would love thee more 
and serve thee better we must know thee 
better. So often we have sat complain- 
ing of the coldness of our hearts and 
wishing that something would happen to 
make us love thee better, and meanwhile 
we have neglected the quiet moments and 
the open Bible and our Sunday-school 
lessons and every other means by which 
men are brought face to face with God. 
So often we have insulted thee by asking 
thee to help us to love thee better when 
we have made no effort to* know thee 
better. Forgive us, O Lord, and help us 
to remember that so long as we neglect 
our opportunities to learn of thee so long 
may we look for our hearts to be cold 
and indifferent to thee. And God forbid 
that we should ever again neglect a single 
opportunity we may have to learn of thee. 
Our Father, etc. 



38. 

OUR FATHER, we pray thee to help 
us to realize that there is nothing 
which we need to cultivate more than the 
thought of God; that there is nothing 
that will make us better or happier than 
the thought of God; that there is nothing 
that will give us so much strength as a 
continual consciousness of God. Help 
us to remember that the less we think of 
thee the farther will we wander away 
from thee, and the more we think of thee 
the nearer will we come to thee, the 
stronger will be the thought of thee, the 
stronger will we be able to work for thee, 
the stronger will we be able to live for 
thee. And that we may think of thee 
more and more help us, we pray thee, to 
be more earnest students of thy Word 
which tells of thee. Help us to treasure 
our Sunday-school lessons as so many 
pictures in which we may have a new 
glimpse of God. This we ask in Jesus' 
name. 

Our Father, etc. 



44 oi>EasrrN"Gr exercises 

39. 

BLESSED SAVIOR, we look to thee 
as our best friend. We know that 
thou dost love us better than we love our- 
selves, and we know that thou hast power 
to do all for us that thy love may prompt 
thee to do. And we know also that if we 
will put ourselves wholly into thy hands 
thou wilt pour out upon us such a bless- 
ing as there will not be room to receive 
it. Help us, O blessed Master, this hour 
to give ourselves to thee. Help us to lay 
all that we have and all that we are upon 
thy altar. And then, Lord, accept us — 
accept us just as we are, and cleanse our 
hearts and make us what we ought to be. 
And through this day and through all 
the days to come may we remember that 
we are no longer our own; and whatever 
we do may we not forget whose we are 
and whom we serve. 
Our Father, etc. 



OPEsmsre bxbroises 45 

40. 

BLESSED MASTER, we pray thee 
to help us to take our Sunday- 
school work seriously. So often we are 
tempted to think of it as a light thing, 
hardly worthy of our time and talents. 
Yet, Lord, in our serious moments we 
know that the most important thing 
those of us who are children can do is to 
study to know thy will that we may do it, 
and that the greatest work those of us 
who are teachers can do is to teach a 
child thy holy will. And help us to re- 
member that this work ought to be done 
better than any other work in the world. 
And, Lord, we beseech thee to awaken in 
us a strong determination to make our 
Sunday-school as great in its achieve- 
ments as it has been in its possibilities. 
And may we find no time too precious, 
no effort too great, to give to this work 
to which thou hast called us. All these 
things we ask in the name of thy dear 
Son. 

Our Father, etc. 



46 OCTHSmSTGE MXEROISJBS 

41. 

BLESSED SAVIOR, thou who hast 
said "if any man thirst let him come 
unto me and drink/' we come to take 
thee at thy word. Thou knowest the un- 
satisfied cravings of our hearts, and thou 
knowest that some of us have gone in 
every direction seeking some fountain at 
which we might quench our thirst except 
to Jesus. We have gone in quest of 
pleasure and have come back surfeited 
but not satisfied. And in our serious 
moments we have remembered how the 
great men of the earth from the begin- 
ning of time have drunk of every cup 
known to man and still have found noth- 
ing to quench the thirst of their souls. 
Yet, Lord, many of us continue to seek 
happiness everywhere except from thee. 
O help us this moment to believe with all 
our hearts that thou and thou alone canst 
satisfy the deeper cravings of our hearts. 
Lord, we do believe thee. Put thy Spirit 
within our hearts and satisfy us, for Jesus' 
sake. 

Our Father, etc. 



cxPEisnisrG exercises 47 

42. 

SAFELY through another week, 
Father, thou hast brought us on our 
way, and we come to thank thee. Each 
day thou hast thought of us when we did 
not think of ourselves. Each night thou 
hast kept us when we could not keep 
ourselves. And thou hast given us all 
things according to our needs. And now 
thou hast brought us to another day — 
another gift of thy love — a day in which 
we shall find it easy to think of thee. 
Help us, Lord, to make the most of the 
precious opportunities of this holy day. 
Help us to begin now to think more and 
more of God and of his will concerning 
us, remembering that the more we think 
of thee the less we will think of the things 
that are contrary to thy will. Bless our 
School — our pastor, our officers, our 
teachers, our pupils, any who are sick or 
in trouble — and finally save us all to- 
gether in thy kingdom, we pray, for 
Jesus' sake. 

Our Father, etc. 



48 CMPMNnSTQ EXERCISES 

43. 

OUR FATHER, we corne to ask for 
thy blessing upon our Sunday- 
school, that it may be a greater blessing 
to us than it has ever been in the past. 
While we are grateful for all that has 
been accomplished we know that it is 
little in comparison with what might have 
been done, and we are longing to see 
greater things. We want our School to be 
a greater power for good in our com- 
munity than it has ever been. We want to 
see its influence extended to homes which 
we have not yet reached. We want to 
see all our teachers giving themselves 
with new zeal to their work. Above all 
we want to see our pupils saved. Lord, 
there are so many among us who have 
been learning about Christ for years and 
yet have never given their hearts to him. 
O Holy Spirit, awaken in us a great hun- 
ger for souls; and may we not be satis- 
fied until every one of our pupils has 
accepted Jesus as his Savior and Lord. 
We ask it in his own name. 
Our Father, etc. 



O&^NTNG EXERCISES 49 

44. 

LORD, thou hast done so much for us 
and we have done so little for thee. 
We want to be useful servants. We want 
to show our gratitude by our deeds as 
well as by our lips. We have wished so 
often for an opportunity to do some great 
thing for thee, and we have waited idly 
for the opportunity and it has not come. 
And now we have come to realize that 
during all this precious time we have 
wasted we might have given many a cup 
of cold water in thy name. Help us, 
Lord, not to despise the day of small 
things, and to leave no kind deed undone 
while waiting for an opportunity to do a 
greater deed. Teach us how to give a 
cup of cold water in Jesus' name. Help 
us to quench somebody's thirst. Help us 
to satisfy somebody's longings. Help us 
to cool some weary brow. Help us to 
bathe the temples of the faint. Help us 
to refresh somebody who is weary. Help 
us to do now the thing that needs to be 
done now, we beg for Jesus' sake. 
Our Father, etc. 



SO QPElSXyTQ EXERCISES 

45. 

OUR FATHER, thou art nearer to 
us than our secret thoughts. Thou 
knowest the best and the worst that is 
within us. Thou art acquainted with all 
our ways. Thou knowest us better than 
we know ourselves, and thou canst tell us 
what we need better than we can tell thee. 
O gracious Lord, bless us this day, we 
pray, not according to our asking, but 
according to our real wants as thou seest 
them. If we ask for the things we should 
not have, do not grant them; if we fail to 
ask for the things thou wouldst give us, 
be gracious unto us and withhold them 
not from us. And grant, Lord, that 
whatever thou mayest give or withhold, 
we may recognize thy wisdom and love, 
and continue to praise thee out of grate- 
ful hearts. These things we ask in the 
name of thy dear Son. 
Our Father, etc. 



QPEisrasrq exercises 51 

46. 

STRONG SON OF GOD, immortal 
Love, we pray thee to strengthen 
our hearts with thy love that our hands 
may be strong for thy service. We real- 
ize that many an arm is weak simply be- 
cause it has never been raised for the 
right; that many feet are too tender for 
the ground because they have not been 
running to carry help to the needy; that 
many a heart throbs faintly because it has 
not been exercised with sympathy and 
mercy. Help us to remember that if we 
would be strong we must not only feed 
upon thee, Lord, but we must go and 
obey thy word. And, Lord, help us — 
whatever our hands find to do, to do it 
with our might; for only thus shall we 
save ourselves from blight. May our 
boys grow up strong to resist temptation. 
May our girls grow up stronger than all 
the influences that may tempt them aside 
from the path of right. Make us all 
strong, Lord — strong to obey, strong to 
endure, for Jesus' sake. 
Our Father, etc. 



52 CHPESnON'G KXBROISES 

47. 

OUR FATHER, who art the protec- 
tor of the weak, we pray thee to 
keep us from every hurtful thing. De- 
liver us from selfishness, the canker of so 
many souls. Deliver us from false pride. 
Deliver us from the "don't care" spirit. 
Deliver us from doubt. How can we 
doubt thee when thou hast been so faith- 
ful to us? How can we doubt thy word 
when thou hast kept every promise that 
thou hast made? How can we doubt thy 
love when there has never been a 
moment since our birth when we were 
not surrounded by thy lovingkindness? 
Help us to remember these things that 
we may never doubt thee. And, Lord, 
keep us from sin. Help us to realize 
what a terrible thing it is to sin against 
God — to use our lips or hands or minds 
or hearts in disobeying him to whom we 
owe all that we have and all that we are. 
Save us from sin, O Lord, for Jesus' sake. 
Our Father, etc. 



QPEJSTlNrQ EXERCISES 53 

48. 

BLESSED LORD, grant us thy grace 
that we may love to do the things 
that thou dost command us to do. May we 
love to keep the Sabbath day holy. May 
we love to come to thy house to worship 
thee. May we find no hour so sweet "as 
that which calls us to thy feet." And 
may we love to study our lessons because 
they are from thy Word; because they tell 
us about thee and about thy will concern- 
ing us. May we love to work. May we 
love to do our duty in all things. May 
we love to be diligent. May we love to 
be helpful. 

Make us of one heart and mind, 

Courteous, pitiful and kind, 

Lowly, meek in thought and word, 

Altogether like our Lord. 

All we ask in his dear name. 
Our Father, etc. 



54 aPEisrrN'Q exerctcses 

49. 

DEAR LORD, who hast promised 
help for every time of need, grant 
us thy grace that we may be able to over- 
come temptation and keep thy command- 
ments. Time and again we have trusted 
in our own strength to resist temptation 
and we have failed. Time and again we 
have tried to obey thy will but our reso- 
lution aided us not. Unless thou wilt 
come to our aid we are undone. . O, put 
thy Spirit into our hearts that we may 
live by thy strength and be delivered 
from all sin. Lord, hear our cry. Hear 
the prayers of these boys and girls who 
want to obey thee but who find it so easy 
to forget thy law. Hear these young 
men and women who know the meaning 
of temptation and who earnestly desire to 
be delivered from evil. Hear the prayers 
of these older men and women who long 
ago learned the strength of the tempter 
and the weakness of unaided human na- 
ture, and who realize that thou art their 
only hope. Hear us all, O Lord, and put 
thy Spirit within us and save us. We ask 
all these things in the name of thy dear 
Son. 

Our Father, etc. 



OPEisxyrQ exercises 55 

50. 

^/^ OD of love that hearest prayer" 
V-J hear us for our school this day. 
Give to our officers such earnestness of 
purpose as will make them strong for 
every duty. Help our teachers to re- 
member that while the most serious busi- 
ness of life is living, the next most serious 
business is teaching others how to live, 
and may they give themselves with new 7 
earnestness to their high calling. Put 
into the hearts of our pupils a great hun- 
ger for thy Word, so that they will find 
the study of their lessons an increasing 
delight. And, Lord, may they not study 
in vain. May our boys and girls receive 
the truth in their hearts and grow up to 
be manly men — manly like the Man of 
Galilee. May our girls grow up to be 
noble, consecrated women whose adorn- 
ing shall be "the ornament of a meek and 
quiet spirit which is in the sight of God 
of great price." And grant, Lord, that 
we may all be so faithful to thee that we 
may become at last an unbroken circle 
around thy throne in heaven. 
Our Father, etc. 



LofS. 



56 OPEISTSTG EXERCISES 

51, 

OLORD our Teacher, we pray for 
thy blessing this day upon those 
who have been called to teach in this 
Sunday-school. Help them to realize 
what a momentous business it is to point 
out to precious souls the way of life. 
Help them to look well to their motives 
that they may aim at nothing short of the 
salvation of each and every pupil. For- 
bid that any one of them should be in- 
terested in the trifles which make a 
Sunday-school appear great to the ne- 
glect of that work which makes a Sun- 
day-school really great. And may they 
give themselves with all their strength to 
this great work. May they never weary 
of giving to their pupils the best that is 
within them, remembering that the foun- 
tain of the heart cannot be kept fresh and 
sweet without constant giving. And 
may they give of their sympathy and their 
love as well as of their knowledge. Bless 
their pupils, O Lord, and may they so 
develop in all the Christian graces that 
their lives may be a source of unceasing 
joy to their teachers. 
Our Father, etc. 



oPMrsrnye exercises 57 

52. 

LORD, before we open this Holy Book 
to begin our lesson, help us to ask 
ourselves in all earnestness whether we 
are willing and ready and anxious to do 
all that we shall therein learn is our duty 
to do. We know that many of us are 
willing to do those things which accord 
with, our notion of What the Bible means, 
and we know that many of us are ready to 
do those things which do not cut square- 
ly across the grain of our own wishes; 
but, Lord, are we ready to do the things 
which this Book commands? O help us 
this moment to say in our hearts, What 
I find required of me in this thy Word, 
Lord, however hard or unreasonable it 
may appear, that will I believe and that 
will I do. And may we always approach 
the study of our lesson in this spirit. 
These things we ask in Jesus' name. 
Our Father, etc. 



58 RALLY DAY 

53. 
RALLY DAY. 

OUR FATHER, we thank thee for 
the love that hath kept us in all our 
wanderings this summer and hath 
brought us safely back again, full of en- 
thusiasm and strength for the work of 
another year. Help us, Lord, to resolve 
this day to be better and to do better than 
we did during the past year. May we 
who are officers push our work as a privi- 
lege and not allow it to rest upon us as a 
burden. May we who are teachers give 
ourselves to teaching rather than to 
entertainment. May we seek to win our 
pupils to ourselves that we may win them 
to Christ. May we study our pupils as 
well as our lessons. May we pray for our 
pupils each day, and may we not despair 
of loving the unlovable or teaching the 
unteachable. May we who are pupils re- 
solve to be more faithful in the prepara- 
tion of our lessons than we were last year. 
May it be our delight to be regular and 
prompt in attendance. May it be our de- 
light to uphold the plans of our teachers. 
May it be our delight to do our part in 
everything that is expected of pupils. 
Lord, we have now turned a new leaf. 



RALLY DAY 59 

What shall we do with this white page 
this new year? Shall we disfigure it with 
smears and blots at the top and then with 
tear stains at the bottom? What shall we 
make of this new year? A mere gap in 
the calendar? An idle stool of repent- 
ance? O help us this day to form a clear- 
ly defined purpose of what we are going 
to do with this great opportunity which 
God, out of the abundance of his love, 
has opened up before us. And then, 
Lord, may we have strength to go and do 
what we have planned to do. All these 
things we ask in Jesus' name. 
Our Father, etc. 



CO CHRISTMAS 

54 

CHRISTMAS. 

GLORY to God in the highest, and 
on earth peace, good will toward 
men. We bless thee, we praise thee, we 
worship thee, we magnify thee, we give 
thanks to thee for thy great glory, O 
Lord God, Heavenly King, God the 
Father Almighty. Our hearts swell with 
gratitude to thee, O God, for the world's 
great Christmas gift that came from the 
Father — the blessed Savior whose birth- 
day we celebrate. O help us everyone to 
open our hearts to him this day, and to 
recognize him as our King and our Lord 
whose will it shall be our joy to obey. 
And may we think of him to-day until he 
shall become so real to us that we can al- 
most see him with our eyes, and feel the 
breath of his love upon our faces. And 
may we have a new vision of his love that 
will bind our hearts to him forever. All 
glory be to thee, O Christ, our blessed 
Redeemer! 

Our Father, etc. 



PEOISICXISr DAY 61 

55. 
DECISION DAY. 

OUR FATHER, our hearts swell 
with gratitude when we remember 
how many precious opportunities thou 
hast given us in this place to learn of thy 
dear Son. But, Lord, our hearts are sad- 
dened when we remember that while we 
have been learning of Jesus Sunday after 
Sunday, month after month, year after 
year, so many in this Sunday-school have 
never learned to believe in him. They 
believe him — they have never thought of 
doubting his Word — but they have never 
believed in him — they have never accept- 
ed him as their Savior. They have 
learned about him as they have learned 
about Alexander and Caesar and Napo- 
leon, and they have never allowed him to 
be anything more to them than Alex- 
ander or Caesar or Napoleon has been to 
them. Lord, help them to see how they 
have wronged thee and to turn to Jesus 
this day. Help these boys to look to him 
who, while yet a little boy, was about his 
Father's business; and may they accept 
him as their Savior to-day. Help these 
little girls to look to him who said, "Suf- 
fer little children to come unto me and 



02 EASTER 

forbid them not"; and may they come 
unto him. Help these young men and 
young women to look to him who while 
yet a young man died to save the world; 
and may they come to him. And may 
every unsaved one in our school come to 
the Lord this day, we ask, in his own 
name. 

Our Father, etc. 



56. 

EASTER. 

WE praise thee, O God, for the Son 
of thy love. We praise thee, O 
Christ, that thou didst come into the 
world to die for us and that thou didst 
rise again. We praise thee for the blessed 
thought that comes to us this glad day 
that if thou art risen from the dead — as 
thou art — then thou hast power over 
death; then the grave hath lost its vic- 
tory. Help us to realize that if thou art 
risen then thou art alive to-day; that if 
thou art alive then thou art near to every- 
one of us ; that if thou art near to us then 
thou art sympathizing with us; that if 
thou dost sympathize with us then we 
may be assured that all our needs shall 



PROMOTION PAY 63 

be supplied and we shall be finally satis- 
fied. Thou art risen! then thou art the 
Son of God. Thou art risen ! then thou 
dost live to fulfil thy promises. Thou art 
risen ! then we shall rise again. And now 
that thou art risen — 

O Jesus, ever with us stay, 
Make all our moments calm and 
bright, 
Chase the dark night of sin away, 
Shed o'er the world thy holy light. 

Our Father, etc. 



57. 
PROMOTION DAY. 

OUR FATHER, we have come to- 
gether to take account of the work 
of the year — to see what we have accom- 
plished, and to recognize those who have 
been faithful. We thank thee for all the 
good work our pupils have done during 
the year. We thank thee for those who 
have won their promotion by their faith- 
fulness. We thank thee especially for 
those who have been most diligent in 
their studies and most faithful to perform 
all the duties expected of them. Help 
them to understand this day, O Lord, 
that the greatest reward one can receive 



64 ^RQMQTIOl^ PAY 

in this life is the privilege of being more 
diligent and more faithful in a greater 
work, and may they go to their new 
places in the school determined by thy 
grace to be more faithful and diligent this 
year than they have ever been in the past. 
If there are any who have not done well, 
Lord, be gracious to them and help them 
to do better next year. If there are any 
teachers whose pupils have disappointed 
them, help them to remember that God 
holds us responsible for faithfulness, not 
for results. And, Lord, grant that in that 
great Promotion Day that will come to 
us all by and by, when we shall leave our 
classes here forever, not one of us shall 
fail of promotion, but everyone of us shall 
be called to go up higher. All we ask in 
Jesus' name. 
Our Father, etc. 



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